Induction Meeting T20 South Africa: IDOS Contributes to Shaping Global Policy Advice

South Africa chairs the G20 this year. IDOS has been cooperating for many years with the institutes leading the T20 process for many years and will contribute to the content of the South African T20 process.

As in previous years, the G20 process also includes a dedicated think tank process, with the aim of enabling cross-regional science-based discussions and providing policy recommendations to G20 leaders.

The Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD), the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC) lead the T20 process. IDOS will engage substantively with the South African T20 process through policy briefs and events. Moreover, Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge and Dr Axel Berger support South Africa’s T20 process as a Member of the Advisory Council and as Lead Co-Chair of the Taskforce on Trade and Investment respectively.

T20 is a broad-based network of think tanks, which provides evidence-based policy advice to the G20. T20 South Africa will again seek to focus on high-impact, solutions-driven and implementation-focussed recommendations. It will put emphasis on the concept of solidarity and attempt to further strengthen research collaboration between the Global South and Global North and seek to increase the participation of new think tanks, in particular from Africa. This emphasis will be of great importance in the fourth-successive Southern Presidency of the T20, which will end with the hand-over to the United States. Thus, South Africa has chosen the vision “Consolidate and Sustain” for their presidency.

Thematically, T20 South Africa has chosen five central themes reflective of the priorities of South Africa’s G20 presidency: Trade and Investment, Digital Transformation, Financing for Sustainable Development, Solidarity and the Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Action and the Just Energy Transition.

With the induction meeting, the T20 has officially kicked off its engagement. IDOS is committed to contribute to this important science-policy interface, particularly in times where evidence-based policy and a cooperative multipolar world order are being doubted and in parts systemically undermined.

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